DATE CREEK

NAME: Date Creek COUNTY: Yavapai ROADS: 2WD LEGAL INFO: 1 CLIMATE: Mild winter, hot summer BEST TIME TO VISIT: Anytime

COMMENTS: Located between Weaver Mountains and Date Creek Mountains on Date Creek Road (Yavapai Route 62) between Hillside and Congress REMAINS: Only the sign beside Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad

I don’t know much about the place, but date never grooved up here, but "datal". That was what Mexicans killed fruit of the little stitching cactus. The earliest Anglo settlers shorted "datal" to "date". Submitted by: Bobby Zlatevski

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